Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-02-24
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ing his health.
President Solomon, of the republic of
Hayti, is seriously i'll.
James Redpath. the active editor of
the North American Review, is very i'll.
Theodore Roosevelt and bride have
taken house in Washington.
General R. B. Potter is reported to be
seriously i'll at Newport. r. /.
Cassius NJ. Clay is still actively canvass
ing Kentucky for the republican nomi-
nation for governor.
The winter has been one of the unusual
severity in in Labrador.
Bermuda is having bigger runs as 3
winter resort than ever before.
The fund raised by subscription for
Mrs. Logan amounts to $4,000.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is said
to be hopeless invalid, and will never
be able to even return from Florida.
Frank Stockton writes his funniest
stories under the aspiration of neuralgia
it is said.
The Hon. George B. Bancroft is said to
get his beard trimmed on the fourth day
of every month.
Gov Oglesby, while in New York, ad-
vised Gen. Sherman to return to st. Louis.
/ He disliked to see western men settling in
New York.
Marshall 2. Wilder is mind reader as
well as a humorist. He gave a per9or-
nance before the prince Of Wales last
summer, and surprised his highRess.
For the first five weeks of 1877 the
railway construction was double that of
the same period last year.
! A bill has been introduced in the Ne
braska house to provide for the stamniDg
of merchandise made in the penitentiary.
| For the first time in the history of New
Orleans, the gambling houses are closed,
to await the result of prosecutions.
The members Of the Pennsylvania
legislature are mainly in favor of James
Z. Blaine or Governor Hill as presidential
nominees.
The San Francisco Chronicle SAYS that
$4,000 gallons of analine dye were shipped
into California in 1886, which was used in
adulterating the wine made in the state.
The Comte de Paris is winning renogn
IN England, not as statesman or author,
but as one Of the most graceful skaters
in London.
Maggie Mitchell often cooks the dinner
at her Long Branch house. and lets the
servants stand by and look at her.
In attempting to enter the canal at
Menasha, Wis, a pound sturgeon
grounded on sandbar and was captured.
General Grants uncle, Samuel Simp-
son, is dying at his home near Bantum,
Clermont county, N. Y. He is nizety-two
years old.
Oakley Hall, formerly Mayor of New
York, has become a naturalzed English
subject. He says he never expects to see
America again.
Miss Annie Howard, who was queen of
the Mardi Gras three years ago, is to give
the Crescent City a public library as a
memorial of her father It is to cost
$4,000.
Mr.. Manning, as secretary of the treas
ury, gets salary of $4,000. Mr.. Man
ming as president of the new bank in
New York gets $4,000.
Herr Krupp, the great ot-vI and irvI1
manufacturer of Germany, has issued a
stirring appeal to his 10000 employees to
vote for the septenate.
The northern Pacific road is building
car to supply light, heat, and pure
water to passenger trains. It is to be
placed Immediately behind the locomo-
tive.
The United States government has
10000 Springfield rifles stored away, and
is still manufacturing the Anticipated
weapon at the rate of 10000 per annum.
The Michigan house refused to repeal
the Baker conspiracy law, designed to
prevent strikes.
4 bill will shortly be introduced in the
Illinois legislature, providing for topo-
graphical survey of the state for the pur-
pose of retaining the vast areas of
swamp land now useless.
The Missouri house Tuesday adopted
the joint resolution for submitting a |
prohibitive amendment to the people
70 to So.
Rev. DR.. r. J. Breckenridge once asked
his mother if she had not been too strict
with her boys. Her witty reply was:
"Who has whipped out three better
preachers than I have?"
A policeman in Atlanta, having noted
that colored man was regularly calling
at residences with a large basket, made
the discovery that it contained whisky,
sugar, glasses and teaspoons, arranged IN
a framework.
Worth is introducing plain clinging
garments, with an entire absence of any
thing bOufant, consequently tournures
will soon be considered passees de mode.
Added to the misery Of cold sixty de-
grees below zero and all the stock dying
off, the people of Fort Shaw, M. T., are
facing scarcity of wood and no coal
can be taken there through the deep
snow.
Captain Charles Willoughby, Indian
agent at Quinault, on the coast in the
northwestern part of Chehalis county,
Washington Territory, says that a record
of the rainfall there for 1886 showed a
total OF 1871 inches, and for December
of 25.71 inches.
Kansas in itself is a vast empire. Few
people know that within its boundaries
can be placed the states of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware and
Maryland, and still there would be a very